One outcome of the very successful fundraising campaign just concluded — thank you, readers! — is that NC will be able to cover more topics more deeply, and even do original reporting on them. One such topic is health care, and I’m saying health care as such, not ObamaCare, because whether ObamaCare indeed enters an […]

Charlie Stewart was looking forward to getting out of the nursing home in time for his 60th birthday. On his planned release day, in late 2012, the Long Island facility instead called Stewart’s wife to say he was being sent to the hospital with a fever. When his wife, Jeanne, met him there, the stench […]

The aging of the Baby Boom generation will greatly increase the need for long-term care (LTC) services in Florida and most other states and pressure to develop a more cost-effective system of services. Creating a more effective LTC system is likely to hinge on successfully confronting three major challenges. The first challenge is the fact that the current […]

Japan now has a higher proportion of working women than we do. I’m trying to get my head around this fact. “Everyone else is continuing to rise and we’ve declined, and now we’re basically tied with Japan. And Japan’s on the upswing and we’re still going down,” said Jason Furman, chairman of President Obama’s Council […]